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update, after 2 days and no end in sight, i gave up. disk is dead I guess. no longer appears in windows at all and isnt detected. sorry had to reboot and wasn't going to let it run for (infinity sign)

I dont want to stop it now but just 188m of 302m... and over 24 hrs of working. i think the point of all this is if the boot and the boot backup are identical, and corrupt, the disk wont get recognized by windows. mine shows up in the window but is inaccessible. so i am hoping this mft search would ...

Ha well I just woke up and its been another 12 hrs since I posted, but 116785152/302664600. so I am nowhere close to finished.

I will assume another 24 hrs and see where it is then... may be doomed however, hard drives do "die" and this was an older one.

I too am trying to search MFT... but it is very slow so far.
http://i.imgur.com/Vcq67om.jpg

First I got an error in win 8 saying my drive was inaccessible. Windows tried to repair it but no luck. I searched for help and came across an article about TestDisk so now I'm trying it... not exactly an ...